Dan Clancy, Google’s director of research, wrote in a blog post on Google’s Open Source Blog that Google will apply findings from its own foray into digital learning to its collaboration with edX. Google released an online education platform called Course Builder last year and will continue to maintain the project while working with edX, Clancy wrote.
In addition to experimenting with higher education on MOOC.org, Google has also become a partner in the Open Education Alliance, an initiative which aims to enable student access to education for careers in technology.
Both Google and edX already have roots in Kendall Square. Google has its Boston offices at 5 Cambridge Center. EdX, which was founded by MIT and Harvard in May 2012, currently has offices at 11 Cambridge Center and plans to move about a block away to 141 Portland St. in January.
—Staff writer Amna H. Hashmi can be reached at amna.hashmi@thecrimson.com. Follow her on Twitter @amna_hashmi.